Pali Rohar (Pali Rohár) Changed License for the LIBOPENAPX , offering the implementation of the APTX codec (Audio Processing Technology) used in the A2DP Bluetooth profile. Package includes libopenaptx.so library and utilities for encoding and decoding sound. The license is changed from LGPLV2.1 on GPLv3 +, which will lead to inability use LibOpenAPTX code in projects supplied only under the GPLv2 license without irrigation of the code associated with the library to GPLv3. This will achieve licensed compatibility with projects under the APACHE 2.0 license.
Change of the license became the answer to Conflict with the developers of the Freedesktop project and the company COLLABORA, which, according to the creator of libopenaptx, broke the licensed Agreement and abused the adopted Code of Conduct. In particular, According to , the developers of Freedesktop and Collabora moved Its code in Pulseaudio without specifying information about the author.
As a proof of the author referred to Libopenaptx decode_buffer feature written by him, in which even the same comments, but according to the Pali Freedesktop developers have stated that it is their own code. In response to a perturbation and attempt to discuss the fact that this action is a violation of the license agreement, the Freedesktop developers simply deleted a message about the problem under the pretext that this discussion violates the Code of Conduct.
Realizing the inability to solve the problem peacefully by LIBOPENAPTX has changed the GPLv3 license and added a note on the use of code use in FreeDesktop projects. Changing the license Start to act starting from LIBOPENAPX 0.2.1, which is already Added Freedesktop developers in a black list Prohibiting use in PipeWire code due to licensed incompatibility.
Daniel Stone, a former member of the Board of Directors of X.org Foundation and one of their key developers of Wayland and Pipewire, who takes the post of head of graphic projects in COLLABORA, said that the Libopenaptx license is doubtful from a legal point of view. LIBOPENAPTX is not a personal development of Pali Ryhara, but only the fork code from the FFMPEG project, which was initially supplied under the LGPLV2.1 license and fell ROHAR could not unilaterally change the license to the part of the code that did not belong to it and even more so